The yellow line here is a proposed Israeli "forward defense zone," which they intend to occupy and ethnically cleanse. But it includes an area north of the Litani River, which so far the IDF has been unable to cross. If diplomats hand them this bridgehead, they will use it to invade central Lebanon.
Of course desecration is a war crime but I find it absurd that they’re threatening more action for someone who destroyed a statue than a group of people caught on camera sexually assaulting a detainee.
The closest concept that I think philosophers actually use in political philosophy is legitimacy, and in terms of legitimacy, Israel is so obviously illegitimate. It is an apartheid state! It in no way represents the territory it occupies.
for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help” is almost literally what Mayor Mamdani is saying and it’s great actually
After these first interventions against private insurers, the wom en's and minority caucuses within ACT UP pushed the organization to take its actions much farther and focus on the systemic exclusion of low-income HIV-infected women from all forms of social insurance, In the late Igoos, activists from ACT UP, the American Civil Liber- ties Union (ACLU), Women's Health Action Mobilization (WHAM), and legal aid lawyers put pressure on the CDC to revise its defini- tion of AIDS so as to take account of the indicator diseases attecting women.112 The CDC was reluctant to introduce these changes, com- plaining that any revision along the lines proposed by ACT UP would double the official caseload of AIDS patients and dramatically increase the burden on public services. After the failure of negotiations, activ- ists from ACT UP and WHAM staged a mass action against the CDC in early 1990 in which they blockaded the entrance to its headquar- ters in Atlanta and unfurled a banner on the roof with the words "CDC AIDS definition kills women."113 In October of that year, Terry McGovern, a lesbian legal aid lawyer working with women prisoners, filed a lawsuit against the HHS accusing it of knowingly using the CDC's definition of AIDS to restrict the benefits it had to pay.114 To coincide with the event, ACT UP activists, including many low-income women with AIDS, staged a protest outside the Department of Health and Human Resources office that distributed these benefits. In 19gI, the CDC finally offered to compromise, agreeing to add some but not all female-specific opportunistic infections to its official definition of AIDS. Although only a partial victory, the CDC's change of heart had the more important side-effect of convincing the Social Security Administration to change its definition of recognizable AIDS — a deci- sion that at last made Medicare, disability benefits, and other services available to women with symptomatic HIV infection and persuaded many other social servic…
I didn’t know about the sex differences in what opportunistic infections (cis? Pelvic inflammatory disease often) women with AIDS experienced!
without endorsing or advocating any recent activities on the part of working people against criminally rich billionaires and their antihuman corporations, I note that the 'peaceful protest march' era seems to be coming to an end and I guess we will just see which approach is more effective
The field of public health, once inseparable from the theory of social medicine, was not immune to the influence of neoliberal health economics, and in the i97os it began to revise many of its found. ing assumptions. By this time, it was becoming clear to epidemiolo- gists that in wealthier societies infectious diseases were giving way to noncommunicable diseases as the leading cause of illness and that many of these could be linked to avoidable behavior such as overeat- ing, smoking, or lack of exercise. Moreover, it seemed that many of the residual infectious diseases that continued to affect wealthier popula- tions (in particular, asymptomatic and undetected STDs) were linked to unprotected sex. In much the same way that neoliberal critiques of public health focused on the limit case of the self-induced harm, public health policies began to orient themselves around the problem of "lifestyle choice" and its presumed social costs. The president of the Rockefeller Foundation, once the leading philanthropic player in international public health, complained that "the cost of sloth, glut. tony, alcoholic intemperance, reckless driving, sexual frenzy, and smoking is now a national, and not an individual responsibility. This is justified as individual freedom-but one man's freedom in health is another man's shackle in taxes and insurance premiums** Even long-time advocates of universal health insurance began to wonder out loud if inflating healthcare costs could be attributed to the "prevail ing hedonistic lifestyle" of affluent Americans and if responsible tax payers should be expected to bear the cost of such lifestyle choices m In Canada (1974), the United Kingdom (1976), and the United States (1979), health authorities called for the expansion of public health interventions beyond traditional medical and surgical case to encom- Pass preventative measures targeting personal behavior and unhealtir lifestyles.61 No longer should these interventions focus ob the sa nuld …
Melinda Cooper describing the neo-liberalization of public health
most hot take political podcasting and streaming is reactionary by design and necessity; if you’re trying to eke out a living with this stuff (and not just treating it as a hobby), the takes must flow, rain or shine, night or day, people aren’t paying for “i suppose we will have to wait and see”
i think what a lot of chartmongers don't get about the economy is, on paper your new job might be just as good as the old one. but moving to an org that uses microsoft products takes a toll on your life satisfaction that isn't captured by traditional measures
Imagine dedicating your life to incel looksmaxxing so much that you've smashed yourself in the face with a hammer only to have a regular reporter from 60 Minutes Australia completely outmog you.
(Clavicular eventually walked off the interview)
Holy moly the collapse of the CPC vote in Terrebonne.
Politico headline: "Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal" Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.
Energy policy think tanks keep putting out proposals like "give Mark Zuckerberg sole control over our utility rates by making him America's next grid czar" and the people in Everytown, America are like "go ahead and fuckin try"
"Scammers are writ large doing better than honest people who play by the rules" also doesn't actually have to be true (I don't know if it is) for the sentiment to absolutely destroy the national vibes.
for whatever it's worth: there are style differences between analytics and continentals but also differences in what subjects have been taken seriously in both traditions of philosophy and if you ask me a lot of people are using the first to defend views they won't admit about the second
There's a certain kind of guy that reads "performative" and heads to the fainting couch, but sees "heteroskedasticity" and barely blinks. (This guy were the quants in my grad programs.)
My reaction to this is some variant of the old Thought Slime line that 'most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day'. This man is simply unable to be irritated by the discursive norms of Continental philosophy in the way that I am. To me, he is like a little baby.
I wrote up my response.
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/04/ther...
There’s so much there if you do not let yourself give up in 2 seconds, which is what most analytics seem to do as far as I can tell!
I think this is good and mostly correct, and I have felt for a few years that the best thing about my philosophical writing (which I do less of now) (sorry for ‘bragging’) is that I also do this kind of arbitrage of reading supposedly nonsense philosophers and expressing their thoughts accessibly.
I do know people who talk with the people they directly support every day, on the few occasions when I’ve donated directly to a person, I have not done so, but for some people it does take the form of a personal relationship
During times of siege (i) does not really apply and (ii) requires more effort than most people actually put into giving so I don’t think either of these considerations are very decisive
I’m very sympathetic (and have expressed myself) there exactly same concerns, I think a few wrinkles that complicate this are (i) during times of greater cross-border movement there is some degree of elasticity of supply, and (ii) it builds international solidarity concretely via personal relations
BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges.
/w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social
I don't think it's a "problem" that there are fewer teen pregnancies. I think fewer teen pregnancies is a good thing, actually,
𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗨𝗭 𝗦𝗨𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗗 𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟’𝗦 𝗖𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗟𝗘𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗢𝗡 Maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively suspended, with vessels still not receiving clearance to transit. The disruption follows a wave of Israeli strikes on targets in both Lebanon and Iran as part of the widening conflict, actions that have directly undermined the ceasefire agreed between the United States and Iran and raised serious security concerns for commercial navigation.  Until Israel halts its ongoing operations that contradict the broader ceasefire framework, one of the world’s most vital energy corridors is likely to remain closed, and any hopes of reopening the route hinge on full compliance with the ceasefire terms.
Israel is doing everything in its power to undermine the ceasefire.
A truly apocalyptic regime.
Centrists: he didn't pull the Genocide Lever this time! Hahahahaha TACO! This is going to tank his poll numbers.
Me:
some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this
"An Israeli Ceasefire" is eventually going to enter the common parlance next to "A Mexican Standoff", but in this case as shorthand for promising an end to hostilities and then just carrying on.
Psychoanalysis (and hermeneutics of suspicion generally) undermines vulgar conceptions of our self-awareness. Are there any influential conceptions of self-awareness that are psychoanalytically informed so that they are more modest and less susceptible to psychoanalytic critique?
